It's amazing how people see things so differently. Some people believe we are fighting for oil, yet the US receives only 14% of their oil from the Middle East. Europe, Japan, and China use a lot more of the Middle East oil.
Some say Bush was out to finish what his daddy started. This might be true. But, if Saddam had fully cooperated with the UN inspectors, he might still be living today.
It seems people do not remember the attack on the WTC in, I believe it was, '93, when Clinton was president. Does anyone remember Bosnia, Somilia, or the USS Cole. All of these "situations" happened during Clinton administration.
I will admit we have given billions for foriegn aid. Some of this was funneled to our enemies. I don't believe you can buy friendship. But the powers in office made these decisions.
While a lot of people criticize what has happened in Iraq and Afganistan, most people are not offering solutions to the attack on the WTC's. If Bush had not invaded Afganistan and Iraq, where would we be now?
There has already been two attemps since then. One was going to be the attack on the army base. The other was the fuel pipelines going thru NYC to the airport. Both of these were foiled while Bush was in office. No one can accurately predict the "what if's" about Bush or some other president doing different then what has been done. The outcome could, and probably, been very different if we were not over there fighting. But, no one knows for sure.
And, I will admit, we are not fighting the war the way war should be fought. Remember when what's his name (Zawarkari sp) and his guys were in the "church" at Faluga (sp)? We didn't want to blow-up a sacred place with women and children. I would have gave them 10 minutes to drop their weapons and come out. If not, I would have jets level the place, then napalm the remains.
How about Tekrit (sp)? Isn't this Saddam's old stomping grounds? And, it's a hot spot for our soldiers. I would use one of those "Mother of all bombs" ( I think it's call a Blu82) and level that town. If you are going to fight, fight. I would close down the borders between Iraq and the other countries. The ROE's would be: Get caught traveling at night, and you will lose your life. During the day, we would search camels and trucks for contraband weapons.
But, Bush is too wimpy, and we haven't seen anybody with the courage to fight in almost 20 years.
But, to answer your question, people will say Bush did not do enough to have stopped whatever attack that happens. People will forget how divided the country was about what to do. But, such is life and politics. Good luck to us all, and may God bless the USA!
2007-11-05 15:18:01
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answered by jack-copeland@sbcglobal.net 4
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They cry because Bush "took no action to head off 9/11," but yet if he had done something before the towers and the Pentagon had come down, nobody would have believed him that the buildings might have been gone the next day and he'd have been labeled a reactionist war-monger.
By the way, anyone who thinks 9/11 was an inside job is a complete flake.
2007-11-05 04:39:24
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answered by Anonymous
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answered by ? 4
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Incompetent and inept fearmongers.
You are the ones who keep yelling about terrorists and then aid the terrorists through inept foreign policies and practice negligence in securing our ports and our borders and support an administration that compromises national security by outing CIA agents in fits of petty revenge. You also know that Bush and Rice ignored warnings of an Al Qaeda attack in 2001 but you support these incompetents. You conservatives have a lot to answer for.
2007-11-05 04:27:31
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answered by Anonymous
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They would say we picked a fight with them. THey would be in denial, and say they never said we won't attack again. THey make up stories that the US was behind some elaborate scheme to make a certain group look guilty . They would say Hillary was right. They would have memory lapses. They would find imaginative ways to blame the Republicans.
How do I know they would do that. Look at the Internet stock bubble crash. They blame Bush, when It happened at the end of the Clinton administration.
2007-11-05 04:11:51
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answered by Anonymous
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TRAITORS. Just like I did when bush allowed the terrorists to attack on 9/11.
Heckuva job securing those borders bushie!
2007-11-05 10:21:58
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answered by Anonymous
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That depends, will the Fear Mongers again use the shock and fear of that moment to rally the nation into invading a country that had nothing to do with the attacks? Then I'll still call them Fear Mongers, because the title is apt. There are other words I generally use to describe such cowardice, but Yahoo usually censors them.
Any group of people who spend so much of the time believing things that are flat out wrong, are bound by the laws of probability to be correct once. You're due.
2007-11-05 04:07:07
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answered by Beardog 7
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Some may call it fear mongering, but in my opinion, America must never let her guard down again.
2007-11-05 04:10:11
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answered by Truth B. Told ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID 6
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But you just don't get it.
What does starting a new war in the Middle East have to do with protecting the United States? In fact, how can you not see that more instability in the Middle East is the very formula for putting the United States more at risk from terror attacks?
2007-11-05 04:09:18
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answered by Anonymous
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I don't know what we'll be called, but they'll certainly blame us for not doing something sooner.
2007-11-05 04:15:40
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answered by Anonymous
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